Diana Uttley – 1871-1960

From the "Deaths" column of the K-W Record, December 28, 1960:

UTTLEY, Miss Dianne, 247 Franklin Ave., Dec 28, 89 years.

The accompanying obituary reads:

Miss Dianne Uttley
Miss Dianne (Annie) Uttley, 89, of 247 Franklin Ave., died there today.
Born July 28, 1871, she was a daughter of the late Nathan Uttley, Sr., and his wife, the former Caroline Randall.
The body is at the Keffer Funeral Home, where the funeral will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. Alan Calder of Trinity United Church will officiate. Burial will be in Waterloo Mount Hope Cemetery.

Notes:

• this is one additional confirmation that Nathan's first wife was a Randall and not a Linder, but where did the name "Caroline" come from? Diana was the last child of Nathan and his first wife Lucinda Randall.
• 247 Franklin Ave in 1960 was the brand new Sunnyside Home for the Aged. Today it has expanded somewhat and is the "Sunnyside Home" operated by the regional government. The name Sunnyside comes from the area in the east end of Kitchener where there are schools and streets also named Sunnyside.
• how should one spell her given name?
  
  • the old family Bible entry, presumably written by Nathan reads "Diannah Uttley July 28 1871",
    
  • Nathan's Last Will records this daughter from the first family as Dianah,
    
  • her headstone reads "DIANA UTTLEY/DIED 1960",
    
  • the cemetery records at Mount Hope and the K-W Record obituary spell it Dianne.
• Doug Uttley reports that she worked as a housekeeper for the Stumpf family on Frederick St. in Kitchener during her working life. Frederick Street was once a street of large homes near the downtown core. Today it has been redeveloped with many government buildings, federal, provincial and regional.

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